CBC Ombudsman Says Network Didn’t Breach Standards for Not Calling Hamas ‘Terrorists’

CBC has not breached its own journalistic standards by avoiding the use of the word “terrorist” to describe Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, the Canadian public broadcaster’s ombudsman says. “CBC’s practice of referring to Hamas as terrorists only with attribution adheres to the corporation’s journalistic standards,” said CBC Ombudsman Jack Nagler in a decision released Nov. 23 about a reviewed complaint. Canada has designated Hamas as a terrorist group since 2002. CBC’s guidelines say that although the public broadcaster can say that Canada proscribes Hamas as a terrorist group, and can quote the prime minister saying it’s a terrorist attack, CBC doesn’t use its own words to call it that....